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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by rdl on Monday August 29, 2011 @05:52PM (#2939208)
Making (something users don't want), or not (making something users want)?

i.e. is failing to make anything at all a substantial portion of the failures, in addition to successfully making the wrong things?

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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by pg on Monday August 29, 2011 @10:04PM (#2939820)
They're both common. Some people build something elaborately wrong, others just don't get enough done.
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Re:What Kills Startups? A study. by bjoernlasseh on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @12:31AM (#2940122)
one we call premature scaling, the other we call dysfunctional scaling ;) ... btw. @pg did you read any of our reports?
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